1. Walmart and other VERY LARGE corporations have already got everything they ever dreamed of. Amazon just bolted recently. You’ve already heard about McDonalds and the others.

2. ALEC is about to change it’s name which would allow our complicit congresspeople to pretend to stand for working peoples interests too, instead of only the shareholders, while continuing to peruse the same aims.

3. Corporations and the congresspeople, who have bolted, are feeling bad about what they’ve done to the country and have decided we should have the right to vote, have a good environment, collectively bargain in our workplace, not be killed by cowards with guns, not be put in jails for profit, have healthcare that doesn’t send us to the poorhouse and numerous other liberal ideas that bring people joy and comfort.

I’m not saying which different theoretical thing this might mean, but I’ve been pretty skeptical over the last decade.

I KNOW, I KNOW! Corporate leaders could be put in jail for not maximizing their shareholder’s profits. Where in the hell did that law come from: most certainly NOT from the people!

One could easily argue that a single payer system would be loved by all corporations other than those in health care. Think about it. If you are Wal Mart or GM or Boeing, and now you have to deal with and pay for part of the health care costs for millions of employees and their families, then adopting a true universal national health care plan (single payer or any of the other models) would relieve these big bad corporations of their current health care expanses. This would be a huge boon to all corporations other than the drug companies and similar health care profiteers. So most corporatists should be wildly in favor of universal health care provided by the government and not by the corporations.

I almost forgot about Blackwater until somebody at Occupy SLC brought it up a couple of weeks ago. Changing your name does work, but the media is failing at it’s job too, as usual.

NPR actually had a news story about Walmart and ALEC yesterday. Sort of surprised me. The local affiliate, KUER had some coverage of Occupy SLC’s intent to have a “welcoming committee” for ALEC when they have their conference here next month.

I’ve always seen ALEC as a very astute, agenda-driven organization and lamented that progressives weren’t using similarly effective models. It must be the $hiney bribe pool the left couldn’t bring themselves to accumulate.